I had to process these requests at a company I used to work for. They do send "proof" (proof in quotes because you have to believe in good faith they didn't just make it up, which I have to believe they didn't).

We never shut anyone off though. We worked with business exclusively and only ever sent "scary" letters. Though we had one client that was a major music venue (a very known venue that's pretty famous) who would get these letters all the time. The irony was too much for me. I ended up calling them personally most of the time because it was too funny.

Some interesting facts about excel I learned the hard way.

1. It only supports about a million or so rows
2. It completely screws up numbers if the column is a number and the number is over 15 digits long.

Not really related to what you said, but I'm still sore about the bad data import that caused me days of work to clean up.

Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.

This bill was introduced by two Democrats to highlight how all these policies are being enacted by Republicans that target women but not men.

My uncle came back from Vietnam with really bad PTSD (among other problems like alcoholism). Every fourth he would spend the whole day/night in the basement with the curtains drawn (to block out the flashes) and headphones on with the sound turned all the way up (to block out the sounds).

He would also take my cousins to buy fireworks every year.

I don't mean to minimize your struggle, I just thought the juxtaposition was interesting.

I hope you could work through your struggles. I'm happy to say he was able to. He was able to quit drinking and minimize the effects of his PTSD. By the end of his life he was out there watching us shoot off the fireworks.

I suspect a lot of those people are arguing in bad faith and are actually spreading misinformation. That they never intended on voting for Biden, or always intended on voting for Trump and trying to make it seem like Biden is losing his base.

IRL, most people I know, while not happy with Biden's response acknowledge that Trump's view is much much worse.

I'd love to hear a coherent reason backed by facts and evidence about why DEI is bad?

Whenever someone tells me they don't like DEI and I ask why, it's always some unhinged spiel about women and immigrants taking their jobs.

Private landlords would just sell to large corporate landlords who could profit with smaller margins.

Just need the user to mash F12 during boot and select the recovery environment, possibly input WiFi credentials if not wired

In theory that sounds great, now just do it 1000+ times while your phone is ringing off the hook and you're working with some of the most tech illiterate people in your org.

If you're a 40 y/o texting "inappropriate" things to a minor, you should have your twitch contract cancelled too.

I have some bad news about farmers for you...

Considering you came here to complain about it, yea.

I don't know what this text is going on about. People don't wash the 'white shit' off chicken. Some people think that washing chicken (or poultry in general) reduces the chance of cross contamination due to salmonella. In reality it makes it more likely for cross contamination because it splatters all around your sink and surrounding areas.

It also doesn't make it taste bland. It's just useless.

We do the same, but opposite. We have a minivan and a smaller EV. The minivan is technically hers and the EV is mine, but it's really more what it's used for. If one of us is taking the kids somewhere (school, birthday parties, fun) we take the van. If we're running to the store, normal errands or just taking a single kid we'll use the EV.

It doesn't make sense for her to take the minivan to run to the store to pick up something small and it doesn't make sense for me to take the smaller car to bring the kids somewhere.

I considered it until I saw the price was $100

In the grand scheme of things it's less than I spend on my partner and kids.

Thanks! This was something that drives me crazy, but it seems like the biggest offenders are repost bots (which I don't have any problem with in general) and I suspect they are going to miss this post.

How old are you that you remember party lines? My mom doesn't even remember them and I'm in my late 40s

Interesting statistics on this (mind you, this is all from quick Google searches because I was curious). Data centers use about 90 billion kWh of power a year globally (which seems to include servers, cooling, and all the misc energy usage) while AC use is about 250 billion kWh per year globally.

Of that 90 billion kWh a year, I have no clue how much of it is used on AI (and how much AI is going to increase that number in the future) but it seems like, today at least, AC usage puts a lot more stress on the power grid than data centers do.

You also have to account for how that power is used. Data centers will use a pretty consistent amount all year long where AC usage spikes when needed hitting the grid with huge loads all at once.

So there's a couple things at play here.

1. The post is kind of BS since that whole area isn't just SeaWorld's parking lot (see other comments for more info).
2. The amount of parking spots a business must have is regulated. On average it's about 4 parking spots for every 1000 sqft. SeaWorld Orlando is 200 acres. That's a lot of parking spots they're required to have. I agree it definitely ends up being a TON of parking spots most businesses don't need, but it's not the business's fault.

He was relevant there for a hot minute when he spoke out against Trump, but now he's doing whatever he can to get back in MAGA's good graces.